# 蒲鉾
## Chinese

* 蒲鉾

### Pronunciation

* Mandarin
    (Pinyin): púmóu
    (Zhuyin): ㄆㄨˊ ㄇㄡˊ
* Cantonese (Jyutping): pou$^4$ mau$^4$
* Mandarin
** (Standard Chinese)
*** Hanyu Pinyin: púmóu
*** Zhuyin: ㄆㄨˊ ㄇㄡˊ
*** Tongyong Pinyin: púmóu
*** Wade–Giles: pʻu$^2$-mou$^2$
*** Yale: pú-móu
*** Gwoyeu Romatzyh: pwumou
*** Palladius: пумоу (pumou)
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰu³⁵ moʊ̯³⁵/
* Cantonese
** (Standard Cantonese, Guangzhou–Hong Kong)
*** Jyutping: pou$^4$ mau$^4$
*** Yale: pòuh màuh
*** Cantonese Pinyin: pou$^4$ mau$^4$
*** Guangdong Romanization: pou$^4$ meo$^4$
*** Sinological IPA : /pʰou̯²¹ mɐu̯²¹/

### Noun

蒲鉾
* kamaboko

## Japanese

Kanji in this term :
| 蒲 | 鉾 |
| かま Jinmeiyō | ほこ > ぼこ Hyōgai |
| kun'yomi ||

### Etymology

Compound of 蒲 (kama, “cattail, bulrush”) +‎ 鉾 (hoko, “spear”). The cattail plant sense is from the way the seed spike resembles a spear. The food-related sense comes from the way the fishcake would often be shaped into a tube on a skewer for roasting, resembling a cattail seed spike in shape and sometimes color. The hoko changes to boko as an instance of rendaku (連濁)..

### Pronunciation

* (Tokyo) かまぼこ [kàmábókó] (Heiban – [0])
* IPA: [ka̠ma̠bo̞ko̞]

### Noun

蒲(かま)鉾(ぼこ) • (kamaboko)
* the seed spike or raceme of the cattail or bulrush plant
* a traditional Japanese fishcake: any of various processed seafood products made from surimi, in which whitefish is pureed, formed into loaves, and steamed until firm

#### Usage notes

Generally written in hiragana due to the high number of strokes and rarity of the characters used in the kanji spelling.

#### Derived terms

* 蒲鉾芋(かまぼこいも) (kamaboko imo): grated 山芋 (yamaimo), wheat flour, and arrowroot mixed, placed on a board, steamed, and made to look like kamaboko
* 蒲鉾形(かまぼこがた) (kamabokogata): a domed shape like a kamaboko loaf placed on a board
* 蒲鉾小屋(かまぼこごや) (kamabokogoya): a rough hut shaped like a kamaboko loaf, made of bent bamboo and covered in rushes
* 蒲鉾箍(かまぼこたが) (kamaboko taga): a brass or copper hoop such as for a barrel or 湯桶 (yutō) that is wide in the middle and narrow at the edges, similar in shape to a kamaboko loaf
* 蒲鉾豆腐(かまぼこどうふ) (kamabokodōfu): tofu mixed with walnuts, placed on a board, steamed, and made to look like kamaboko
* 蒲鉾味噌(かまぼこみそ) (kamaboko miso): surimi mixed with white miso, cracked 山椒 (sanshō, “Japanese pepper”), minced ginger, soy sauce, and optionally other ingredients, and simmered in saké over low heat
* 蒲鉾道(かまぼこみち) (kamaboko michi): a road where the surface bulges up in the center and is lower on the edges, similar in shape to a kamaboko loaf
* 蒲鉾弓(かまぼこゆみ) (kamaboko yumi): a type of bow made of zelkova wood with a layer of bamboo on the outside and similar in shape to a kamaboko loaf, popular from the late Heian period

### References

* ↑ Shōgaku Tosho (1988) 国語大辞典（新装版） [Unabridged Dictionary of Japanese (Revised Edition)] (in Japanese), Tōkyō: Shogakukan, →ISBN
* 1 2 Matsumura, Akira, editor (2006), 大辞林 [Daijirin] (in Japanese), Third edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* 1 2 Kindaichi, Kyōsuke et al., editors (1997), 新明解国語辞典 [Shin Meikai Kokugo Jiten] (in Japanese), Fifth edition, Tokyo: Sanseidō, →ISBN
* ↑ NHK Broadcasting Culture Research Institute, editor (1998), NHK日本語発音アクセント辞典 [NHK Japanese Pronunciation Accent Dictionary] (in Japanese), Tokyo: NHK Publishing, Inc., →ISBN